Curriculum Vitae

Research interest

• feeding ecology of extant apes and fossil hominins
• reconstruction of diet and migration in great apes and prehistoric humans
• isotope biochemistry and ecology (carbon, nitrogen, sulphur, strontium, oxygen)

 

Name	Viktoria M. Oelze
Date of birth	17.09.1981
Place of birth	Koblenz, Germany

 

Education

2002-2008	Study of Physical Anthropology (minor subjects: Prehistoric Archaeology and African Ethnology) at the Institute for Anthropology, University of Mainz, Germany
2008	Master degree (Magister) obtained at the Institute for Anthropology, University of Mainz, Germany Thesis: ‘Dietary Reconstruction in Two Early Neolithic Populations by Stable Isotope Analysis of Carbon and Nitrogen’
2008-2012	PhD student in the Department of Human Evolution, MPI-EVA, archaeological science group, supervision by Michael Richards and Jean-Jacques Hublin
2012	PhD defense in the Faculty of Archaeology, University of Leiden, Netherlands Thesis: ‘Mobility and Diet in Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age Germany - Evidence from Multiple Isotope Analysis’ http://hdl.handle.net/1887/19045
2012-present	Post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Primatology, MPI-EVA

 

Archaeological fieldwork

August 2003	Excavation at the multi-period site of “Westerhausen”, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
July 2006	Excavation at the Iron Age site of “Vix/ Mont Lassois“, Burgundy, France
Aug-Oct 2006	Excavation at the Iron Age site of “Hattersheim am Main“, Hesse, Germany
Sep  2009	Strontium isotope mapping in south-western Germany, collection of environmental samples in Baden-Württemberg

 

Teaching

2002-2007	Teaching assistant in Human Osteology and Anatomy courses at the Institute for Anthropology, University of Mainz
May 2012	all-day workshop on Great Ape Isotope Ecology and sampling protocols for international volunteers of the Pan African Programme
July 2012	Lecture in bridge seminar ‘behavioral ecology and primates’ (University of Leipzig)